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Mar 18 311_TruthMovement commented on A Man Who Just Moved Here Tells Us About Seattle.

Or maybe you're just bad at making friends and project your awkward eye contact or lack of eye contact onto some elaborate racial storyline.

You're probably a little right, too. A little from column a, a little from column b.

Aug 17, 2012 311_TruthMovement commented on Man Allegedly Sics Pit Bull on Another Dog, Hits Owner in Face with Rock.

When there's a new toy on the market, and a dozen children out of 250,000 who own the toy choke to death on it, it's promptly recalled and responsible parents make sure to keep it away from young children. Let's say the toy's been on the market for a year -- it's extremely unlikely that your child is going to choke on it. Still, most parents don't want to take that risk. The benefits of the toy are slim in comparison to the risk, however small it may be.

When it comes to dogs, that prudent wariness goes out the window for a lot of us. They cast a magical spell over us. Invariably when one of these pit bull posts sets off an argument on Slog, someone brings up golden retrievers and some study that says they're just as, or more, violent than pit bulls. This is a useful argument because nobody can imagine banning Air Bud. He's the All-American dog, and if you ban Air Bud you have to ban all dogs -- and that is never going to happen. Our anger needs to be pointed at dogs for being so goddamn lovable that they trick us into endlessly apologizing for them with every statistic we can pull out of our ass.

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Jan 26, 2011 311_TruthMovement commented on Name This Band: Special John Hughes Edition!.

Which one of the three is not like the other?

Jan 18, 2011 311_TruthMovement commented on Stray Observations on the First Episode of Portlandia.

Zac Pennington of Parenthetical Girls has a bit part in the Adult Hide & Seek League. He's a Portlander now, but originally hails from Seattle via Everett.

Jan 17, 2011 311_TruthMovement commented on The Guardian: "City Sponsored Racial Profiling?".

@10: Are you insinuating that police officers are being instructed to let black people they believe are murderers go free? That's a pretty big claim.

Jan 17, 2011 311_TruthMovement commented on Listen to the Yet-to-Be-Released Say Hi Record, Um, Uh Oh, RIGHT NOW.

Really wish they were called Say Bye.

Jan 17, 2011 311_TruthMovement commented on The Guardian: "City Sponsored Racial Profiling?".

@8: There are plenty of right wing people sprinkled around Seattle, and they tend to just dig in their heels and think of themselves as a persecuted minority. There are probably a lot of officers who would like to live near the city, though, and we should offer them the opportunity, financially, to be able to live within Seattle city limits.

Jan 17, 2011 311_TruthMovement commented on Name This Band: Special Band-Album Cover Combo Edition!.

Wow, this is put out by Solid State, the hardcore/metal wing of the Tooth & Nail label (or at least it was at one point). This will probably be sold in Christian (evangelical) bookstores around the country, but I'm guessing not a lot of Catholic stores will be picking it up, because, you know, it's kind of offensive with the whole bishop as Satan thing.

Jan 17, 2011 311_TruthMovement commented on The Guardian: "City Sponsored Racial Profiling?".

I don't think this story is particularly helpful in bringing together Seattle's police force with its constituents. That's not to say it's bad journalism, but it's clearly written from the angle that the opinions in The Guardian are not that out of line with the SPD as a whole.

These Tea Party-ish opinions, in my book, are all about blowing off steam. Officers get pissed off, and who can blame them? It seems like a really hard job, where no money or benefits on earth could really pay them what they're worth. And they seem to feel that Seattle is ungrateful, even antagonistic towards them. We can sit around all day talking about who is right and who is wrong, but I believe progressive organizations and business owners need to reach out to the police force -- not as people trying to condescendingly teach them progressive politics, but just as community members who want to support them. Maybe that just means making them cookies. I believe those small actions would go a long way towards building a bridge between two cultures that are clearly never going to see eye to eye but need to figure out how to get along.

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Jan 13, 2011 311_TruthMovement commented on New Study Suggests Comic Sans Is Good For You.

@14: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/magazi… Here's an article on Clearview, the new typeface being implemented on road signage throughout the U.S. You can make an unreadable serif typeface just as easily as you can make an unreadable sans face.